Cathy Carter New Zealand Photographer and Multimedia Artist
  • Art Awards (dropdown)
    • Wallace Art Awards 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2014
    • Devonian Reefs, Molly Morpeth 3D Award, 2020
    • Parkins Prize 2019
    • Headon International Portrait Competition Finalist 2015, 2016, 2018
    • Walker and Hall Waiheke Art Awards Finalist 2016, 2017, 2018
  • Series of Works
    • Almost Paradise, 2021
    • Wai Wai Wai 2019
    • Weird Fishes, 2018
    • Poolside, Immersion and Emergence Malolo , 2017
    • Poolside Immersion and Emergence 2017
    • Waimarama, Residency: Waimarama, Reflecting on Water, 2018
    • Portals of Bare Attention 2016 / 2017
    • Waimarama, Reflecting on Water, Motu-O-Kura, 2018
    • Seaside Series 2016
    • Between Worlds
    • Oceanids: Rising
    • Oceanids # 1, 2, 3, 4
    • Drifting #1, 2, 3
    • Immersive Emergence
    • We Float
    • Viridescent -becoming green
    • Waitemata, 'Obsidian Waters' ( A public project)
    • Ophelia # 1, 2
    • Imminence
    • Immersion and Emergence
    • Adrift
    • Subtle Space
    • Mist
    • Zone of Immanence
    • Fluid Fields
    • Convergence
    • Sea Lion Rotation (light projection of stills)
    • Arpeggio ( Light projection of stills)
    • Arpeggio
  • Photos of Exhibited Work
    • Wai Wai Wai exhibition Nkb Gallery
    • Weird Fishes, 2018 Allpress Studio
    • Photoforum Exhibition 2018
    • Waitemata, Auckland Art Gallery
    • Arthaus Gallery 2017 Auckland Festival of Photography 2017, Theme: Identity. 2017 'Open Waters', (curated by Cathy Carter)
    • State of Play 2016
    • Oceanids , Paris Apartment.
    • Oceanids Rising 2016 Moaroom, Paris.
    • We Float 2014
    • Immersive Emergence 2013 (installation)
    • Imminence 2013
    • Zone Of Immanence 2012
    • Convergence 2012
    • Transitions 2012
    • Land vs Sea 2011 (Immersion and Emergence)
    • Mist 2010
    • Waterways 2012
    • Between Worlds
  • ABOUT
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    • Curiculum Vitae (expanded)
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    • Contact: cathy.carter@xtra.co.nz
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Waimarama, Residency:   Waimarama, Reflecting on Water,    Motu-O-Kura Series, 2018
The Motu-O-Kura series, began with Carters residency at Waimarama Beach. It explores a myriad of perspectives of the Motu-O-Kura (Bare Island). Carter references her long-time inspiration, Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai. Carter has previously made work that is an homage to Hokusai’s Kanagawa Wave. In this work, she references Hokusai’s ’36 views of Mt Fuji’, creating a number of views and re-imagined perspectives and reflections of the iconic Motu-O-Kura (Bare Island). Some of these works reference the history of the island as a fishing location for local iwi that continues today connecting the tangata whenua of Waimarama to the island. The works also draw on Alberto Giacometti’s observation:
               ‘ The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity’ 

(On October 16th 1769 Cook sailed past the eastern side of Motu-O-Kura and recorded seeing, ‘a good many houses, boats and some people, we concluded that they must be fishers because the island was quite barren.’ Again in 1827 Jules Dumont D'Urville sailed past and reported seeing houses and boats on the seaward side.)
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Motu O Kura Eventide, 2019 
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Title: Reflections of Motu-O-Kura #1, 2018
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​Title: Reflections of Motu-O-Kura #2, 2018
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Title: Reflections of Motu-O-Kura #3, 2018
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Title: Pink Motu-O-Kura, 2018
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